Connected Family
Kurt Weill’s grandmother was Jeanette Hochstetter of Liedolsheim, Germany. Kurt was one of four members of the same Hochstetter family to lead distinguished careers in the fields of music and literature.
His first cousin once removed was Caesar Hochstetter (born 12 January 1863 in Ladenburg, a suburb of Mannheim - his date and place of death are unknown but this was probably during The Holocaust), a composer and arranger who collaborated with Max Reger and who dedicated Aquarellen Op. 25 to him.
Caesar’s younger brother was Professor Gustav Hochstetter (born 12 May 1873 in Mannheim and died in 1942 in Theresienstadt concentration camp), Professor of Literature at the University of Brussels, writer and poet and friend of Wilhelm Busch.
His second cousin was the childhood prodigy pianist, Lisy Fischer (born 22 Aug 1900 in Zurich, Switzerland and died 6 June 1999 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England).
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